Contemporary American Poetry

Name: Contemporary American Poetry
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ISBN: 9780321182821

ISBN-10: 0321182820

ISBN-13: 9780321182821

Edition: 2005

Authors: R. S. Gwynn, April Lindner

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Concise, inexpensive overview of the great contemporary American poets. Each poet is introduced with a brief informative headnote and most are represented by several poems to allow for in depth study. Useful footnotes and glosses included as well as appendices on literary movements and major prizes. Those interested in contemporary American poetry.

Book details

List price: $57.20
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication date: 9/13/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 544
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.27" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Preface


Introduction


Howard Nemerov (b. March 1, 1920, d. July 5, 1991)


History of a Literary Movement


Goose-Fish


A Primer of the Daily Round


The Fourth of July


Mousemeal


The Human Condition


Charles Bukowski (b. August 16, 1920, d. March 9. 1994)


My father


Question and answer


Young in new orleans


The great escape


Amy Clampitt (b. June 15, 1920, d. September 10, 1994)


The Kingfisher


What the Light was Like


Iola, Kansas


Nothing Stays Put


Hayden Carruth (b. August 3, 1921)


Woodsmoke at 70


Regarding Chainsaws


Pittsburgh


Richard Wilbur (b. March 1, 1921)


The Pardon


Year's End


A Simile for her Smile


The Writer


Mind


Love Calls Us to the Things of the World


Advice to a Prophet


Junk


Playboy


Hamlen Brook


For C


Mona Van Duyn (b. May 9, 1921)


Letters from a Father


Frederick Morgan (b. April 25, 1922)


Washington Square


James Dickey (b. February 2, 1923, d. January 19, 1997)


The Performance


The Heaven of Animals


Sheep Child


Adultery


Anthony Hecht (b. January 16, 1923)


The Dover Bitch


A Hill


"More Light! More Light!"?


Third Avenue in Sunlight


The Feast of Stephen


The Book of Yolek


Alan Dugan (b. February 12, 1923)


On a Seven-Day Diary


Love Song: I and Thou


Closing Time at 2nd Ave. Deli


Surviving Hurricane


For Kafka


Daniel Hoffman (b. April 3, 1923)


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